{"id":4636,"date":"2010-01-11T19:35:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2010-03-14T20:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T00:56:06","slug":"reading-butlers-work-on-hegels-phenomenology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/01\/11\/reading-butlers-work-on-hegels-phenomenology\/","title":{"rendered":"reading butler’s work on Hegel’s Phenomenology"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to follow her genesis of desire in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit<\/em> which isn’t easy. I’m at the section in which Butler is moving towards the all important Lord and Bondsman, but before she can do that, she is outlining her understanding of the role that desire plays in the text.\u00a0 Her take on desire in the P<\/em>. is unique in the central role that she gives it, that is, the central role she attributes this concept playing in his overall work.<\/p>\n

As destructive agency, self-consciousness “as desire essays to gain reality through the consumption of a living thing” 38.\u00a0 But what it finds its that its consumption of living things, draws out the fact of its reliance on the very thing it seeks to destruct. An infinite number of objects must be negated in order for self-consciousness to gain the “monopoly on life that it seeks” 38<\/p>\n

The conclusion drawn by self-consciousness that the world of objects is not consumable in its entirety has an unexpected inverse conclusion: desire requires this endless proliferation of alterity in order to stay alive as desire, as a desire that not only wants life, but is living<\/em>. If the domain of living things could be consumed, desire would, paradoxically, lose<\/em> its life; it would be a quiescent satiety, an end to the negative generativity that is self-consciousness<\/strong>. 39<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Self-consciousness thus concludes that Life and living objects cannot be fully assimilated, that desire must find some new form, that it must develop from destruction to a recognition of the insurpassibility of other living things … ” 38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to follow her genesis of desire in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit which isn’t easy. I’m at the section in which Butler is moving towards the all important Lord and Bondsman, but before she can do that, she is outlining her understanding of the role that desire plays in the text.\u00a0 Her take on … Continue reading “reading butler’s work on Hegel’s Phenomenology”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,100],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-hegel","tag-subjectsdesire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}